Protecting glove for playing handball



May 11, 1926.

B. KENNEDY PROTECTING GLOVE FOR PLAYING HANDBALL Filed May 22, 1924INVENTOR 17176.23

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS Patented May 11, 1926.

BERT KENNEDY, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

PROTECTING GLOVE FOR PLAYING HANDIBALL.

Application filed May 22, 1924. Serial No. 715,153.

- glove immediately adjacent to the inner ends of the fingers and thumbportions and around the crotches thereof. It is the object of myinvention to provide a protect ng glove of this type including simpleeffective reinforcements for those portions just above mentioned uponwhich the greatest strain is thrown in use and in this way avoidpremature breakage.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates by invention and forms apart of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved protecting glove,

Figure 2 is a detail cross section through a portion thereof takensubstantially on line 22 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the reinforcing piecesremoved.

Referring now to these figures my invention proposes a glove including apalm portion 10, continuations of which form the fronts of the thumb 11and the fingers 12. The glove also includes a back, portions of whichare seen at 13 in Figure 1, connected by a buckle and strap at 1st inorder to hold the glove upon the hand, and portions of which form thepockets or backs 15 of the fingers and the thumb, secured by stitchingaround the edges to the front portions 11 and 12.

Gloves of this type, used for protection in the playing of handball, areprovided with a thin uniform layer of padding secured along the palmportion 10 and the fronts 11 and 12 of the thumb and fingers, as bymeans of stitching indicated at 16, and its weakest points in use are atthe inner ends or crotches of the thumb and fingers for which reason myinvention proposes reinforcing pieces 17, one of which is shown indetail in Figure 3, and each of which is quite thick and approximatelycircular and provided with a radial slit 18 adapted to coincide with thecrotch adjacent to which the reinforcing piece is utilized, so that thein nor portion of each reinforcing piece along its radial slit 18 issecured by the stitching 19 which also secures the finger pockets orbacks along the inner portions of the thumb and finger side seams whileeach reinforcing piece is secured around its outer edge by additionalstitches 20 along portions of the thumb and fingers and also portions ofthe palm 10 of the glove adjacent to the crotches of the fingers andthumb.

It is thus obvious that the reinforcing pieces are secured flatwise uponthe palm portion of the glove immediately adjacent to and around thecrotches of the fingers an thumb, the major portions of the reinforcingpieces being upon the palm portion of the glove so that but smallsections of the reinforcing pieces extend along the fingers, butsutiicient to insure ample connection to the fingers and the thumb atand along the side seams thereof as well as adjacent thereto.

lVith the reinforcements constructed, placed and connected as described,a glove for handball purposes is constituted which will greatly outlastthe ordinary unreinforced construction, without detracting in any mannerfrom the ready comfortable use of the glove which is of course to bedesired above all other considerations.

I claim:

1. A protecting glove for playing handball having palm, finger and thumbortions, and approximately circular, radially slitted reinforcing piecesstitched flatwise to the outer face of the palm portion and the innerends of the finger and thumb portions around the crotches between theinner ends of the finger and the thumb portions the slits registeringwith the crotches, the stitching being adjacent the periphery of thesaid reinforcing pieces.

2. A protecting glove for playing hand ball having palm, finger andthumb ortions, and approximately circular, radially slitted reinforcingpieces secured flatwise to the outer face of the palm portion and theinner ends of the finger and thumb portions and around the crotchesformed be tween the finger portions, the slits registering with the saidcrotches.

BERT KENNEDY.

